Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
JORDAN PETERSONIn order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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